⁴ And the advice seemed right in the eyes of Absalom and all the elders of Israel.

³² Though they know ^(A)God's righteous decree that those who practice such things ^(B)deserve to die, they not only do them but ^(C)give approval to those who practice them.

¹⁴ Then ^(A)his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, ^(B)“Let a gallows^[a] fifty cubits^[b] high be made, and in the morning tell the king to have Mordecai hanged upon it. Then go joyfully with the king to the feast.” This idea pleased Haman, and he had the gallows made.

²¹ This advice pleased the king and the princes, and the king did as Memucan proposed.

⁴ and the plan seemed right to the king and all the assembly.

²¹ And Saul said, ^(A)“May you be blessed by the Lord, ^(B)for you have had compassion on me.

²⁰ Now ^(A)Saul's daughter Michal ^(B)loved David. And they told Saul, and the thing pleased him. ²¹ Saul thought, “Let me give her to him, that she may ^(C)be a snare for him ^(D)and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” Therefore Saul said to David a second time,^{[a] (E)}“You shall now be my son-in-law.”